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Sunday Supplement

Should the season be voided? The Players Together initiative and Newcastle's Saudi takeover

Sunday Supplement

Sky Sports

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

3.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Shreeves is joined by The Times' Henry Winter, John Cross from the Daily Mirror and Martin Samuel from the Daily Mail to discuss if the Premier League and Football League can safely finish the football season or whether voiding all results is inevitable with other leagues from around Europe announcing their plans. Plus, the charity work the players have undertaken with the #PlayersTogether initiative, an update on pay cuts for players at Premier League clubs and Newcastle's potential Saudi Arabian takeover.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sunday Supplement Podcast brought to you by Bet 365 and at Bet 365 they don't do ordinary.

0:07.4

It's where every game, every goal and every point matters whatever the sport, whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365.

0:16.2

Please gamble responsibly, over 18's only. Good morning to you. I hope you're with us now by the miracles of technology.

0:27.0

We've had one, two hiccups in rehearsal, I think it's fair to say.

0:30.0

And this supplement, or indeed Sunday Skyepliment is back. We're sorry that we haven't been able to deliver to you

0:36.1

your normal weekly roundup of the newspapers, but hopefully normal circumstances have been resumed or as normal as you can get in the

0:45.0

current circumstances. So I'm particularly delighted to welcome our guests this

0:48.9

morning. The Chief Football Rights of the Times, Henry Winter, the chief

0:52.8

sports writer of the male, Martin Samuel,

0:56.1

and the chief football writer of the Daily Mirror,

0:59.5

John Cross.

1:00.4

Now, Crossy, I'm reliably informed that normally on set, you're the only one who actually eats

1:06.3

the quasons.

1:07.3

So I've come prepared and I've got a few full.

1:10.1

Here you go, fella.

1:11.1

Help yourself.

1:12.1

Lovely. Thanks very much indeed, yeah.

1:14.0

Now there may well be no football for the guys and girls to write about right now, but there are plenty of stories.

1:27.3

So let's just get a flavor of today's newspapers.

1:30.5

Starting with Oly Holt in the mail, really strong headline attached this piece as well.

1:34.3

Denying Liverpool the title, refusing lead promotion because you loathe them is no reason to

1:40.0

avoid the season.

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